Printer&#39;s registering device.



W. S. WARNOCK- v PRINTER'S REGISTERING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAB..26, 1906.

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W'ALLA'GE S. WABNOCK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

V PRINTERS REGISTERING DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 31., 1911.

Application filed March 28, 1806. Serial No. 308,121,

My invention relates to registering devices for printers use, and has several objects and may have different embodiments.

It is old to form a printers block provided with a movable clamp, a fixed rod extending through an extension of said clamp, and an adjusting device supported on said rod, the clamp being provided with means for retaining the adjusting device, whereby the adjusting device may adjust the clamp in either direct ion and travel with the same. In order that the adjusting device may be supported on the rod, a block forming a component part of the structure has to be provided, upon which said rod is mounted.

In practicing my present invention, I do not support the adjusting device on a fixed gear element, but rather I support said gear element upon the clamp and support the adjusting device on the clamp also, instead of on said gear element, by which novel construction .I may. if desired. totally eliminate any casing or blocli, although in some types of devices it may be desirable to employ such block, in which event the gear clement carried by each clamp need not be fastened to the block, for. as stated. the clamp 2117 ries said gear element and adjusting (lerirc. in the preferred embodiment of the invention, the block structure is eliminated and each registering devil-c, therefore, includes a clamp. an adjusting device, and an oxlcrior gear clement. both carried by said clamp, in combination with means whereby the lirst aforesaid gear clement is adapted to be maintained in a stationary position, so that the balance of the gear na-chanisln may cooperate thormvith, in order to effect the operation of the clamp.

The adjusting device desirably. though not. necessarily. includes a plurality of gear elements. preferably two in number, one of which gear elements is a. worn'i shaft having a vertical axis of rotation, the remain ing gear clement being, a worm wheel in that engages the said rack.

engagement with said worm shaft, access being had to the worm shaft by means of a suitable tool through the, hook portion of the clamp. The gear element that is carried by the clamp is desirably, though not necessarily, in the form of a rack bar, andthere is preferably provided upon the same shaft that carries the worm wheel a pinion In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the rack teeth are in duplicated sets and there are provided two pinions, one for each set of rack teeth. The means that I preferably employ for maintaining said exterior gear element, the rack structure. in a stationary position resides in a pin provided upon the bottom of said rack structure adapted to engage any of a number of pin' holes pro vided in grooves formed in the foundation plate. The foundation plate is desirably, though not necessarily, com seed of a plurality of separably and mdividually constructed blocks, each block being grooved, these blocks, when properly assembled, having the grooves therein properly alined, so that slots are established upon the foundation plate thus compositely formed of the blocks. The slots in the individual blocks are desirably diagonally disposed, though I do not Wish to be limited to this arrangement. By this preferred construction, I am enabled, first, to roughly approximate the position of the clamp or register hook with respect to the plate or material it is to hold,

and thereafter accurately to adjust the register book so that the plate or other material may be nicely adjusted in position. In this preferred embodiment bf the invention, the pin constitutes the means for tie-- termining the position of the exterior gear element, but where a block structure is employed as a component part of each device, said block structure preferably constitutes the means for positioning said exterior gear element. Where the pin or equivalent means is employed for holding: the'exterior gear element, I desirably employ means in addition thereto for preventing the register hook from rising from the slot in the foundation plate of the press, to whichend I make the base of the clamp, that portion which is adapted to extend into the foundation groove, collapsible or contractible in size, so that its size may be decreased as it is passed into the slot and thereafter be permitted to expand, so that the structure Y flmvn into zzgroirw in said W43. :1 irzlvuling: t

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.des 0 Minn 01 b ar g3; mszm the bed. 21101151 '20 hold- "my be (1:1 Mon 01' for u u-(quelling H1O plate ho'idm: in bum d1;- Manse ms. w: 1 m1 @Qwn 1 m radians; by engage lent with said gear 010- the gmuw 5:51 iwiding gy mam I (micndh'ya Rd 11. Th s combinniimn WEN-.1 a groove-:1 coming n'hovc he ISSOHULWUHF'AQH held in mid groove. and 1110:1115 fwd propel" 17. Th8COmbillflfiOh with wgmuvef' founpMW-nnlding jaw aluzningnbfmihv foul! (lawn, nutnuamujaiiy 0912M 0G rrmchn'msnli 18. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder including a jaw disposed across its associate groove and coming above thevbed, automatirally operated mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove and serving to hold the jaw in relation to the bed, and engaging means stationary with respect to thebed and along which the printing plate holder may be moved and thereby be held in differing positions along the groove.

19. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printingplate holder inclitding a jaw disposed across its associate groove and coming above the bed, spring mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove and serving to hold the jaw in relation to the bed, and engaging means stationary with respect to the bed and-along which the printing plate holder may be moved and thereby be held in differing positions along the groove.

\ k 20. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder, a

traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove in said bed, automatically expansible mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove, for holding the jaw in relation to the bed, a gear element stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in bothdirections by engagement with said gear element.

21. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder, a traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove in said bed, automatically operated mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove, for holding the jaw. in relation to the bed, a gear element stationarily held in id groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions by engagement with said gear element.

22. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder, a traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove in said bed, spring mechanism adapt ed to be passed down into said groove, for holding the jaw in relation to the bed, a gear element stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions by engagement with said gear element.

23. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder, a traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove in said bed, mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove, for holding the jaw in relation to the bed, a double rack stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions, said means including two pinions carried upon opposite sides of the base and in engagement with the double rack.

24. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of a printing plate holder, a traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove-in said bed, automatically operated mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove, for holding the jaw in relation to the bed, a double rack stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions, said means including two pinions carried upon opposite sides of the base and in engagement with the double rack.

25. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed of a printing plate holder, a traveling plate-holding jaw coming above the foundation and" extending across a groove in said bed, automatically operated spring mechanism adapted to be passed down into said groove, for holdin the jaw in relation to the bed, a double rac stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions, said means including two pinions carried upon opposite sides of the base and in engagement with the double rack.

26. The combination with a grooved foundation or bed, of'a printing plate holder, a traveling jaw coming above the foundation and extending across a groove in said bed, a double rack stationarily held in said groove, and means for propelling the plate holder in both directions, said means including two pinions carried upon oppositesides of the base and in engagement with the double rack.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 19th day of March A; D., 190 6. 105

WALLAons WARNOOK;

Witnesses:

LEON Sraon, G. L. QRAGG. 

